The purpose of the study is to examine seventh and eighth grade students environmental knowledge and their attitudes toward environment in terms of different variables in 2005-2006 academic years in Amasya. Survey method was used in this study. The environmental knowledge test and the attitude scale were developed by benefiting from Leeming et al. (1995). The results showed that there was no significant difference regarding students environmental attitudes according to grade levels and gender. Also, there was a significant difference in the environmental knowledge scores for grade levels whereas there was no significant difference for gender. Then, there was a significant difference in the students environmental knowledge and attitudes in terms of their schools but there was no a significant difference in terms of their parents education level. Finally, it was determined that the students participated in the low level to the environmental activities and they had inadequate in terms of the describing and solving proposal of environmental problems in their life.
Key words: primary school, environmental education, environmental knowledge and environmental attitude
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